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At the top is an enamelled dove with outspread wings, which represents the Holy Ghost.

From Reuters ● May 5, 2023

We all wish we could still run into the outspread arms of the father we lost.

From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022

In it, the angel’s wings are outspread, his gaze forward, his expression startled and open-mouthed, “looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating,” writes Benjamin.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

When the dough has doubled in size, about an hour or so, push it down with outspread fingers, making dimples in the dough.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

The dim Chapel of Calvary held a mournful mural of Jesus lying arms outspread and dead on the cross after it was taken down and laid on the ground.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

In four years he has made Brooklyn's farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built.

From Time Magazine Archive

I dreamed a world where all seemed first-created outspreading bird cherries in the dewfall with blackbirds and nightingales crowded.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mother declared that the sun, as it sank in the snowy clouds, seemed like a red glowing rose, which the gallant heaven had thrown upon the white outspreading bridal-veil of his loved earth.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke

Then came the bare fell, and the raw north wind, and the low gray house, stretching itself under the leafless, outspreading limbs of the sycamores.

From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

But we must prevent the outspreading of the institution, because neither the Constitution nor the general welfare requires us to extend it.

From Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John George Nicolay